Ironing-board



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IRONING BOARD..

No. 447,745. Patented Mar. 3, 18.91.

UNITE STATES PAT NT OFFICE.

ELBERT E. IVOOD, OF BROOKLYN, NElV YORK.

lRONlNG-BOARD.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 447,745, dated March 3, 1891.

Application filed June 25, 1890. Serial No. 356,672- (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ELBERT E. IVOOD, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Brooklyn, in the county of Kings and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Ironing-Boards, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to ironing-boards, such as have a clamp at one end to be temporarily attached to the edge of a table and a leg to support the other end; and it consists in an improved contrivance for the connection of said leg with the board which improves the usefulness of the board for some purposes, all as hereinafter fully described, reference being made to the accompanying drawings, in which a Figure 1 is a plan view of my improved ironing-board inverted with the leg folded up and showing a part of the table. Figs. 2 and 3 are longitudinal sect-ions on line a; a: of Fig. 1, showing the leg of the board in different positions. of the board on line y 3 Fig. 3; and Fig. 5 is an end View of the board with the leg detached.

The board a is made in the usual form of such ironing-boards and has a clamp for fastening one end to a tablet, consisting of the cleat c, jaw d, screw 6, and lever-nut f, all substantially the same as commonly arranged.

My invention consists in connecting the leg g to the fiat metal plate h, instead of directly to the board, and securing said plate to the board a by the angle-cleats 45, forming a slideway in the lengthwise direction of the board along which the plate may be shifted to set the leg in different positions and so that the plate may be taken out and be reversed lengthwise, as a further means of shifting the position of the leg, said leg being connected to the plate near one of its ends. The angle-cleats are adjusted so that they press the plate against the surface of the board with sufficient force to hold the plate by fric- Fig. 4 is a transverse section tion against shifting its position when set, but so that the plate may be forced along the cleats by hand without difficulty. This is accomplished by using thin elastic metal for the angle-cleats and adapting them so that when in thenormal position, with the plate It removed, the outer flanges assume positions a little nearer to the surface of the board than the thickness of the-plate h, as shown in Fig. 5, whereby they grip the plate when it is forced in between them, and press it against the surface of the board and thus hold it by friction, as stated. The cleats "i extend the greater part of the length of the board from its middle to the end opposite to the one attached to the table, and thus enable the leg to be set anywhere along the cleats, the plate h being reversed, according as the leg is to be set near the respective ends of the cleats. This enables a long skirt to be placed on the board so as to be ironed the whole length when required.

The leg is hinged to the plate It at j, same as it is usually hinged to the board, to enable it to be folded up and fastened by the hook Z when out of use.

I claim- The combination, with the ironing-board having the clamp for attaching one end to the table, of the leg for supporting the other end, connected to the under side of the board by the adj Listing-plate, and the spring-cleats, said cleats forming a slideway for the plate, and said plate being detachable and reversible in said slideway, substantially as described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name, in presence of two witnesses, this 30th day of April, 1890.

ELBERT E. lVOOD.

\Vitnesses:

V. J. MORGAN, W. B. EARLL. 

